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Orestes and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Orestes and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
by Euripides
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Spanning the last twenty-four years of Euripides’s career, this volume includes The Children of Heracles, Andromache, The Suppliant Women, The Phoenician Women, Orestes, and Iphigenia in Aulis.... (read more)

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Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
by Euripides
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Four plays by the Greek dramatist who started to interpret human behavior without reference to the wisdom of gods. @GoldenFarce Good, the gals stand outside my house all the time. The constant chanting is creepy, but all agree: Jason crossing the line... (read more)

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The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Version
The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Version
by Euripides
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From the renowned contemporary American poet C. K. Williams comes this fluent and accessible version of the great tragedy by Euripides. This book includes an introduction by Martha Nussbaum.... (read more)

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Antigone
Antigone
by Sophocles
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"Woodruff's introduction is a strong, clear, and clever blend of basic traditional information (to those who know Greek tragedy) and fresh insights." Karelisa Hartigan, The Classical... (read more)

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Electra (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Electra (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Sophocles
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go... (read more)

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The Complete Euripides: Bacchae and Other Plays Volume IV (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
The Complete Euripides: Bacchae and Other Plays Volume IV (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Euripidies
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Collected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal, a powerful examination of the horror and beauty of Dionysiac ecstasy; Herakles, translated by Tom Sleigh and... (read more)

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Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata
Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata
by Aristophanes
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In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional... (read more)

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Lysistrata (Signet Classics)
Lysistrata (Signet Classics)
by Aristophanes
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Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led by the title character, the women of the warring city-states of Greece agree to withhold sexual favors with their husbands until they agree to cease... (read more)

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The Complete Plays of Sophocles
The Complete Plays of Sophocles
by Sophocles
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Oedipus the King • Antigone • Electra • Ajax Trachinian Women • Philoctetes • Oedipus at Colonus The greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the... (read more)

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Grief Lessons Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides Four Plays by Euripides
Grief Lessons Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides Four Plays by Euripides
by Euripides
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Greek Tragedies Volume 2
Greek Tragedies Volume 2
by David Grene
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In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these... (read more)

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The Pot of Gold and Other Plays
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays
by Plautus
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Plautus's broad humor, reflecting Roman manners and contemporary life, is revealed in these five plays: The Pot of Gold (Aulularia), The Prisoners (Captivi), The Brothers Menaechmus (Menaechmi), The Swaggering Soldier (Miles Gloriosus), and Pseudolus.... (read more)

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Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
by Euripides
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Euripides was a brilliant and powerful innovator within the traditional framework of Attic drama. The last of the three great Athenian dramatists, and during his lifetime perhaps the most controversial, Euripides was the first playwright to use the... (read more)

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Three Tragedies: Antigone, Oedipus the King, & Electra
Three Tragedies: Antigone, Oedipus the King, & Electra
by Sophocles
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Faithful as translations and vigorous and straightforward both to read and to act, these versions were written, like their originals, for immediate staage-production. Kitto has deliberately used a fairly strict meter, allowing himself no greater number... (read more)

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Antigone (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Antigone (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Sophocles
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go... (read more)

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Five Comedies: Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra and Adelphoe
Five Comedies: Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra and Adelphoe
by Deena Berg
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xii-xiii).... (read more)

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Suppliants & Other Dramas
Suppliants & Other Dramas
by Aeschylus
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Persians -- Seven against Thebes -- Suppliants -- Fragments with Prometheus bound, traditionally ascribed to Aischylos.... (read more)

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Three Plays Alcestis Hippolytos & Iphige
Three Plays Alcestis Hippolytos & Iphige
by Euripides
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Alcestis--Hippolytus--Iphigenia in Tauris.... (read more)

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Sophocles I
Sophocles I
by Sophocles
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Oedipus the king -- Oedipus at Colonus -- Antigone.... (read more)

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Lysistrata
Lysistrata
by Aristophanes
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